Kingsday or Koningsdag

On the 27th of April we, the people in The Netherlands, but more of course all dutch people, celebrated Kingsday aka Koningdag. It marks the birth of the king Willem-Alexander. The night before is also a biiig party in the whole country and bigger cities. In The Hague there were outside parties everywhere in the city centre which was a lot of fun and such a grand experience ! Literally THE PARTY OF THE YEAR !!!

Anyway, on Kingsday there is a national bank holiday and everyone is dressing up in orange. EVERYWHERE ! The motto is wear as much orange as you can, haha !

Lucie and me decided that we wanted to go to Amsterdam on Kingsday. Of course this is what every tourist plans to do on Kingsday if he is in The Netherlands so we were a bit doubting if this was really a great idea. Full trains, millions of people in Amsterdam, drunk people, boats etc. . But, we decided we go to Amsterdam as it's a chance we maybe won't have next year so we took the train to Amsterdam which was luckily not that crowded as expected. The dutch rail company organized that pretty well !

In Amsterdam it was pretty crowdy but as there were no trams running in Amsterdam this day people could walk everywhere on the street which made the whole situation with lots of people a bit more relaxed.

And what can I say?! It was a life-time experience !!! Sitting by a gracht and having a beer watching the party on the water with great music, it was so much fun and we really enjoyed it. I think everyone should once visit Amsterdam on Kingsday or any other big city ! It's a completely different side of partying and what an attitude !

Kindliness of the dutch people.

I was parking my bike outside the parking lots for the bikes as there was no space anymore but then there was the police for controlling if people parked their bikes in the right space. So I was looking for an empty space but there was none as it was more than full. Suddenly a lady was coming and asked: 'Heb je een plekje nodig? Ik ga eruit.' (Do you need a parking lot for your bike? I'm leaving.) Yessss!
Then, on the way home, some idiot parked his bike between mine & someone else's bike (which is not allowed) so it was hard for me to get mine out. There was a man watching and asked "Gaat het? Kan ik u helpen?' (Does it work? Can I help you?).

That was preeeetty nice!